Margarita Bertheau

Margarita Bertheau Odio (born in San José, Costa Rica on 13 May 1913; died in Escazú (canton) on 21 November 1975) was a Costa Rican painter and cultural promoter.[1][2] The Costa Rican Art Museum states she is said to be known for "landscapes, portraits, watercolor figures, and her geometric, surrealistic and abstract work."[3] She has been called the first female Watercolor painting artist of her country.[4] She had independent views and was contemporary with the first wave of Costa Rican artists that included Dinora Bolandi, Lola Fernandez and Sonia Romero. These four are said to have taught fine art at the University of Costa Rica and to have created the second generation of Costa Rican women artists.[5]

Margarita Bertheau

She worked with Francisco Amighetti on a mural called Agriculture . The mural was for the presidential palace and has been called both pastoral and shocking as it shows the peasants farming but in the distance others run as a person is shot.[6]

References
  1. (in Spanish)Museo Virtual de la Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social
  2. (in Spanish)Article on Margarita Bertheau Odio in La Nación
  3. Costa Rican Art Museum as quoted by the Costa Rica Tourism Board
  4. Chalene Helmuth (2000). Culture and Customs of Costa Rica. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-313-30492-7.
  5. Ilse Abshagen Leitinger (April 1994). The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader. University of Pittsburgh Pre. pp. 249–. ISBN 978-0-8229-7162-7.
  6. "Exhibit chronicles evolution of Costa Rican art - The Tico Times". www.ticotimes.net. Retrieved 2017-09-25.


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